netdev - Re: [Patch net] sit: use __GFP_NOWARN for user controlled allocation

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:08:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andreyknvl@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] sit: use __GFP_NOWARN for user controlled
 allocation

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:29:33 -0700

> The memory allocation size is controlled by user-space,
> if it is too large just fail silently and return NULL,
> not to mention there is a fallback allocation later.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.